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Excellent British character actor who played in the theater from 1939 to 1986 ("French Without Tears", "Othello" [as "the Moor", a role he had already played at the age of seventeen in a school production], "She Stoops to Conquer", "Jeeves"...) and also appeared in scores of movies, TV movies and TV series. Often cast as aristocratic types, he is best remembered for his role as "Pistol" in Orson Welles's Chimes at Midnight (1965). On TV, among many others, he starred as P.G. Wodehouse's famous valet "Jeeves" in Thank You, P.G. Wodehouse (1981), co-starred with Robin Bailey in the mini-series Charters & Caldicott (1985) and was a picturesque "Professor Digory Kirke" in the television version of The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe (1988).- After leaving the Unites States in the wake of the Confidential Magazine trials in 1956, she went to Mexico where she married matador Jaime Bravo but the marriage was quickly annulled (with the help of Bravo's friend Pablo Picasso). In 1965 she met and married French diplomat Raymond Offroy in Houston - they were married for many years until her death and had one daughter.
- Charles Stoneham "Chub" Feeney, the grandson of Charles Stoneham, the owner of the National League New York Giants, was born on August 31, 1921 in Orange, New Jersey. Young Chub served as bat boy for the beloved "Gi'nts" of Coogan's Bluff before being shipped off to Dartmouth for his higher education. Feeney served in the Navy during World War II, and after he returned to civilian life in 1946, his uncle Horace Stoneham, now in control of the team, gave him a relatively unimportant job in the front office.
While working part-time for the family franchise, Chub Feeney matriculated at Fordham Law School in the cross-river borough The Bronx, home of the Gi'nts hated inter-league rivals, the New York Yankees. In 1950, Horace Stoneham promoted his nephew to Vice President, which made him the club's de facto general manager. With Chub as G.M., the Gi'nts won the National League pennant in 1951 (losing to the hated Yankees) and won the World's Championship in 1954.
Horace Stoneham and Brooklyn Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley shocked New York City's National League fans when they announced they were relocating their teams to the West Coast, the Giants to San Francisco and the Dodgers to Los Angeles. Although reluctant to move West, Chub immediately fell in love with Baghdad by the Bay after the team moved for the 1958 season. As G.M., his San Francisco Giants won the NL Pennant in 1962, once again losing to the hated Yankees in the World Series.
Although Horace Stoneham eventually won a reputation as an erratic owner, threatening to move the Giants to Toronto at one point in the early 1970s, Chub Feeney was a highly respected baseball executive. In fact, such was his reputation, Feeney might have been named Major League Baseball Commissioner in 1969 had not some American Leaguers owners objected. A compromise candidate, M.L.B. counsel Bowie Kuhn, was chosen instead. The following year, Nation League owners unanimously elected Chub president of the senior circuit, a position he filled for 17 years.
A traditionalist, Feeney resisted the incorporation of the Designated Hitter into the NL, even though it provided a major boost to American League attendance, making the junior circuit the more popular league for the first time since Babe Ruth revolutionized hitting with his powerful uppercut. Chub regarded his defeat of the DH as his greatest achievement in office. While Chub was president, the more racially-diverse National League continued its dominance of the American League in the All-Star Game, losing just twice during Feeney's tenure.
Chub took the job as president of the San Diego Padres after retiring as NL President. However, he lasted only 15 months on the job, retiring again after an embarrassing incident in which he made an obscene gesture to hecklers on Fan Appreciation Night. He returned to San Francisco, where he died on January 10, 1994 at the age of 72. - Art Director
- Production Designer
George Patrick was born on 21 May 1905 in Salida, Colorado. He was an art director and production designer, known for Pickup on South Street (1953), Monkey Business (1952) and General Electric Theater (1953). He died on 10 January 1994 in Woodland Hills, California, USA.- Art Department
- Art Director
Loren Patrick was born on 21 May 1905 in Nevada, USA. Loren was an art director, known for She's Dangerous (1937), Mysterious Crossing (1936) and Postal Inspector (1936). Loren died on 10 January 1994 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Handsome and charismatic actor and singer, on stage from 1944. Among his best performances were: Frank Butler in "Annie Get Your Gun", Count Danilo in "The Merry Widow", and as Petruccio in "Kiss Me Kate". Guest performances in Denmark and Sweden as Frank Butler. One year engagement at the Kiel-Opera in Germany, playing in: "Carmen" and "Tosca". From 1969 actor at The National Norwegian Travelling Theatre, where he played a various of characters until retirement in 1986.
To avoid confusion with two other actors also named Per Christensen , he changed his name till Per Skift... Skift in Norwegian, means change in English. - Roman Tkachuk was born on 31 August 1932 in Sverdlovsk, Uralskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Ekaterinburg, Sverdlovskaya oblast, Russia]. He was an actor, known for Chipollino (1973), The Wizard of Oz (1974) and Formula radugi (1966). He was married to Mayya Gnezdovskaya. He died on 10 January 1994 in Moscow, Russia.
- Sven-Erik Bäck was born on 16 September 1919 in Stockholm, Sweden. He was a composer, known for Solkatten (1948), Fallgropen (1989) and Stanna en stund! (1948). He died on 10 January 1994 in Stockholm, Sweden.